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| Author: | Jonathan Raban |
| Publisher: | Picador |
| Catalogue number: | 92572 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 10 days |
The Inside Passage to Alaska, with its outer fringes and entailments, is a very complicated sea-route. Parts of it are open ocean, parts of it no wider than a modest river, and it has been in continuous...
| Author: | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 128314 |
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A fascinating account of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes's 19th Century exploration of vast tracts of the Pacific Ocean, including the new southern continent of Antarctica.
During the voyage they surveyed...
| Author: | Glyn Williams |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins |
| Catalogue number: | 104462 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
Williams¿s book is set in the heat of 18th century exploration fever and charts the many perilous expeditions undertaken to find the Passage. Fuelled by the promise of fame and riches from revitalised...
Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawaii
| Author: | Susanna Moore |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 159135 |
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Susanna Moore cannot remember her first encounter with the sea – it has always been part of her life. “Light Years: A Girlhood in Hawaii” is a marvelous book detailing how she grew up in Hawai’i in...
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